SW Automation Engineer

Job Description

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Meet the team:

At Cisco, our Cisco Wireless engineering teams deliver enterprise-grade connectivity and intelligence to a world that depends on always-on infrastructure. We innovate across access points, wireless controllers, and cloud-managed systems to simplify IT and enable rich digital experiences in offices, campuses, hospitals, stadiums, and beyond! Our impact is driven by the innovative, purposeful, and vibrant people who make up our inclusive community. When technology is intuitive, our customers can focus on what matters.

The Cisco Wireless group powers next-generation access point features and services with a strong focus on performance, scale, and security.

Our employees fuel the magic of the Cisco community. They have fostered an environment that empowers Cisconians to challenge limits, embrace risks, and assist our customers in pursuing their missions.

Our guiding principles are rooted in our four core values: care deeply, everybody in, simplify everything, and be brave. These pillars have propelled us to the forefront of cloud-managed IT leadership and have played a pivotal role in shaping a more inclusive future for all.

At Cisco Wireless, we simplify and secure wireless enterprise connectivity across the world. We are the market leader, and we serve a wide range of customers which includes office building for largest companies in the world, hospitals, universities, schools, factories, mines, hotels, retail shops, stadiums, large public venues.

Our wireless access point software team builds a wide range of Wi-Fi access points including the latest Wi-Fi 7 APs (Access Points). Our software team covers platform bring up for everything from boot loaders to web servers on prototype hardware, kernel, driver integration, Wi-Fi features, wireless security, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) radio, and other sophisticated functions integrated into our product.

In this team, you will get exposed to software for most advanced technologies for wireless infrastructure devices. Same team will also automate and qualify these platforms. Your contributions as part of this team will have direct impact into connectivity experience for critically important applications across the world.

Your Impact:

As a Wireless Automation Test Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building high-performance software for Cisco's wireless platforms. Your focus will be on software development and testing crafting, designing, implementing, and optimizing features across the wireless stack and contributing to platform capabilities. You will be responsible to drive Automated continuous Integration and continuous delivery framework for world class Cisco Wireless products.

You will collaborate across hardware, firmware, and cloud teams and bring a software-first mentality to solving real-world wireless challenges. Experience with Generative AI-assisted coding tools will help you accelerate development and improve engineering impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review product requirements document and understand the customer use case.
• Work with senior software architect to help in designing and drafting software functional specifications for a particular feature.
• Work with senior software development engineers to develop the feature and participate in early unit test and integration test.
• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases for Cisco wireless products and solutions.
• Perform functional, regression, performance, and interoperability testing for Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) products and features.
• Automate use cases using Pythons or Ruby.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust Automated CICD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Development) framework for wireless platforms (access points, controllers, Cloud based products).
• Analyse and troubleshoot complex wireless networking issues, identifying root causes and driving resolution.
• Collaborate with development, product management, and support teams to define test requirements and quality metrics.
• Participate in innovative Software test initiatives.
• Share your knowledge by giving brown-bags, tech talks, and evangelizing engineering standard methodologies.
• Accountable for the stability of our product with a high customer focus.
• Work on other quality assurance activities such as reproduce customer issues, scale and performance test, end to end system testing and interop testing.
• Leverage Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cursor) to improve efficiency, accelerate prototyping, and promote code quality.
• Collaborate with hardware, test, and cloud teams to ensure flawless integration and performance across the system.
• Contribute to automated validation frameworks and test tools to support CI/CD and system integration testing.

Minimum Qualification:

• 1-3 years of experience in software development and Testing
• Extensive hands-on experience with Wi-Fi standards and protocols (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax), including security (WPA2/WPA3, 802.1X)
• Strong networking knowledge and Cisco switches / routers
• Working experience in core network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, Radius)
• Experience in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Jenkins, Xpresso, Docker, Jira, GitHub, Gerrit, Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience in deploying wireless solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including integration with cloud networking and management services
• Exposure to test process, test tools, test automation framework, CI/CD pipeline and end to end system validation
• Strong programming skills in Python and C/C++
• Knowledge of software development process and quality assurance process
• Working experience in various OS like Windows OS, Linux, Android and IOS
• Consistent track record to adopt and use Generative AI tools optimally for development and debugging
• Document test results, file detailed bug reports, and track issue resolution.
• Stay up to date with emerging wireless technologies, standards, and industry best practices
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on design correctness, performance, and maintainability
• Excellent teamwork and communication across multi-disciplinary teams

Preferred Qualification:

• Certifications such as CCNP Wireless, CWNA, or equivalent are a plus
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent are highly desirable
• Experience in customer-facing roles, presenting at industry conferences, or contributing to standards bodies (e.g., IEEE, Wi-Fi Alliance).
• Familiarity with big data analytics, telemetry, and AI/ML-driven network management.
• Experience with large-scale, multi-site wireless network deployments.
• Familiarity with IoT connectivity, wireless mesh, and emerging wireless standards.
• Experience with API testing and automated monitoring/alerting in production environments
• Experience with performance and scalability testing of cloud applications.

Does this sound like you We'd love to hear from you!

Why Cisco

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

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